Eco System

Besides the tangible benefits, which can be quantified easily, the Forest and Wildlife Department
also provides a number of ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. The ecosystem services that forests
provide make life on this planet possible and can be defined as :

“The conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that
make them up, sustain and fulfill human life.”

The major ecosystem services that U.P. Forest and Wildlife Department provides through its forests,
may be enlisted as follows-